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"The South and West showed the largest percentage of boys registered ... The second census, on March 22, 1933, enumerated 201,000 persons, 177,483 being males... to this moving stream of transients, it also shared unequally in the burden imposed by them ... that winter..."
From: Statement of Ellen Potter, Trenton, N. J., Representing The National Committee On Care Of Transient And Homeless in testimony before the Senate considering the Economic Security Act (later Social Security) https://www.ssa.gov/history/pdf/s35potter.pdf

3/22/2000 "The Senior Citizens' Freedom to Work Act of 2000" made a significant step towards eliminating the Retirement Earnings Test (RET) for those beneficiaries at or above Normal Retirement Age (NRA) - The RET still applies to those beneficiaries below NRA – when the Senate, by a vote of 100-0, passed H.R. 5 (with a technical amendment). https://www.ssa.gov/history/briefhistory3.html

3/22/2000 Jack S. Futterman, former Social Security executive and one of SSA's early pioneers, died. https://www.ssa.gov/history/futterman.html
 
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